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POREIGiV LVtELLIGENCE; fUNE 2 1 .—The tOlimving official -Docu-1 rnehts concerning the Spanish Junta, have now been published - GENERAL JUNTA.—Figsr'SivriilG. On the loth of June, in the current year, i kioit, at 11 , ° ° 11 , the first A ssem bl y o f the. Spanish Junta was h eld in the City of Bayonne, in the Bishop's Palace, J"ere a h a ll ;tad been prepared for that purp os e, un eAr the presidency of his Excellency Don M I GU LL ,wCSE D'AZANZA, Counsellor of State, Minister of. Fininces, and Secretary of the Junta ; his Esc-• Ct**ncy the Chevalier D'URGUJO, Honorary Coun sellor of State ?. and Don ANTONA) ROMANILLOS, Memb er t)f the Council of Finances, and Secretary of the King. After the verification of their powers by the,Mem herb of the Junta, an Order of the Council of Castile \qs read,-announcing the. Deciee of his Majesty the tmpt- , or of the French, by which he' proclaimed orot:;er,JosEPH NAPOLEON, formerly King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies . The I.llowing is the substance of the said Docu ment : " Thisday, in full Council, the following Royal Order and Decree was read, addresed to the Dean of the Council : 111 OH AND WORTHY SIR, " By the following Decree, which has been presented to the Supreme junta of the Government by his Imperial and Royal Hignness the G rand Duke of Berg, Lieutenant-General of the Klogdoni, his Itlij - sty the Emperor of the French, &c. has ncemed it good to proclaim his Serene jirother Joseph Napoleon, now King of Naples and Sicily, King ot Spain and the Inches: I, by the command of his Highness, and subse. quern resolution of thF i unta, do preSent it to your Worship, in order that the same may without delay be put into circu lation and executed. " l'he C ounc il w i ll see in this Resolution of his Imperial Majesty, the %%isdom of foresight, and the most obvious proor of his ben: ficent intentions towards the Spanish nation. " To proclaim him King is to say what is expected trom his patertial cares; and to plaCe his Illustrious Brother on the throne of Spain, is to unite forever the interest and glory of France with the interest and glory of Spain. " His I mperial Highness, together with the junta who so well k now that arnottg the qu a liti es w hi c h especially occa sioned the elettion of this Sovereign, his love of justice and beneficence are to be enumerated, add their hope that all those benefits which he has in his Proclamation promised will soon take effect, together with all those others which His Maje s ty h as dotibtless reserved to himself to announce to his poop e wt,en he appears in his metropolis. " In the Palace, iltil jUDC, 18.8. (S,gned) " SEBASTIAN° DE PINUET.A." the bnm of-the Council," tHere tollows the Imperial Decree, proclaiming•joseh p Xing of S pain and the Indies.] ments lhe Council, aft er t h e reading of these docu comniaods, that the Royal Mandate and De cree be printed, announced, and circulated with the accilstornecl fuktalities. " 1 impart this to your Excellency by command of the Council. Be pleased to acknowledge the re ceipt of it. (Signed) " Madrid, lan lune, iScSet' The foregoing documents having been - read, his 'Excellency M. D'AZA,NZA, President of the Junta, delivered the following speech : " GE.:NT LP.MEN—It is a most pleasing and honour ahte task to contribui e to the felicity Of one's Country, and to labour tor ttie welfare of the present race, and of posterity. Sucti'is in tact the great object which unites us in this I etterable assembly, called to gether by the_ comulaud, and under the eye, of the hero of our age, the invincible NAPOLEON, Em peror of the Fl - ench and King of Italy. 'Thanks a nd immortal lathe to the extraordinary man wile gives us again a Country which -we had lost Sinc e litany centuries we have been altogether re - Moved from t h e G overnment,which has been entrusted at one time to artful men, who hatrito other objett than with dexterity to oppress the peopre, at ano ther time to weak Sovereigns without charaaer, who, devoting. themselves to their pleasures, abandoned the Government to their favourites. It is thus that the Spanish nation has been sinking from the sum tint edits glory, to which it had raised itself in the mb and 16th centuries, to. the abyssin which it was plunged, ‘.vlien the last of our Kings resigned the right of Government to a Prince who, for our happiness, unites in himself all the qualities requisite to give life to the nation, in the critical state in which it was eted to him. The first use which he entrustd of tittw power was, to impart it to his II lustrlous Brother JOSEPH NAPOLEON, a just and beneficent Prince, who,' raised before t ' e, the Throne of Naples, had alruadi proved indisputably that his jGo%tintnent was paternal, and had no other ob eet than the welfare of those who were happy • enottgli to live under his laws._ He has resolved that in the place where he resides, and even in his pre sence, the Deputies of the principal towns, and the other authorities of our country, should assemble, in order td confer on the evils under which we bare lived, and to confirm the constitution which our restorer himself will present to us, in order that it rn;,y be the inviolable rule of our Governtnent.— This is the noble and glorious end for which we are assembled here. it is therefore necessary that we should apply our whole 'attention, and, laying aside all party spirit, 'and all prejudices of -pro vinces, classes, and ranks, devote ali .our energies - to the common welfare of Spain. No one can oow have an interest distina from that of his country. The ruetnbers of the same family must alike enjoy the common benefit, and alike contribute to the respedive charge of supporting the common splen dour. In the eye of the law, they who are less favoured by fortune lose none of the respe6l they me rit, nor of their right to be protthed. Let every one of us, as, .far as iiinself is concerned, sacrifice the benefits we exclusively enjoy, and of which many are imaginary. Let us offer them upon the altar of our Country, in order to raise a si'mple and greaf monument, in the place of the Gothic and tottering strudure of our former Government. Let us ex amine it well, and we shall find that it is the Con, stitution which best fits the whole of our Country, bpon which our attention must be fixed, and by no Means on what alone is to the advantage of particu.. Jar classes. " BARTHOLOME MUNOZ." " United here, Gentlemen, each of us apart may do tni.ch .to appease the ferment and disorder which disquiet.i various towns of the kingdom. Our remon strances ally make them perceive the misery into which they are plunged by the seduaion of selfish men, and warnings may force out of their hands w ea pons whiCh can alone injure themselves. What d 0 the.se men imagine? Do they think that they can Lestore the Princes of the old dynasty to the throne ? what means have they to contend .against a power Which the greatest empires have not been able to .. • resist ? The ill us i o n o f , soOle is men to iorkieht 1- height; 4bat in order td fix their elethon tipan the ! of Austria, they have ,determined that the Archduke CnAttLEs shall be . King 'of Spahr: Ah What catithe House of Austria do for us ? Can they tely upon such distant . ' support, and upon such slow 'Nevertheless they ata without plan, contord, -or object. What inust be the result ? ' The ruin and desolation of the country. As to ourselves, We are convinced of the truth, but it is necessary to.pro- , claim it to those who are in error . It Is thu , ? that . our labours may be of service, and that we May ex ecute the noble purposes Of the hero who has called us together. If we do not lose sight of the enlight ened plinciples which I have slightly mentioned, there is no doubt that Sp a in w ill en j oy h er f ormer splesuour, and it will be joyful then to think that wehave'contributed to it." After having heard the Address of M.DAZANZA, the Junta resolved that they would, body, tes tify their allegiance and homage - to his Majesty the King of Spain, and present a suitable address, to him, the adoption of which should take place. in the preitmt sitting.(ploniteur, June 22). 'JUNE 23.-011. the 17th inst. the . Spanish Junta at Bayonne held their second sitting. On the 18th, they were admitted in a body to an audience to his Majesty King JOSEPH. His Excellency. Don M. J. D'AZANZA delivered the following Address : " Sire !—All the world knows for what momentou3 purpo;es we have been summoned into this city by your illustrious Brother, the invincible NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French and King of Italy. To lay the foundation of the permanent felicity of our dear Country is the glorious task imposed upon us. Is it not our duty to testify first t o our Ki ug , t h e Chi e f o t , the Spanish Nation, and the centre of all hope, the becoming zeal and the unwearied eartieastness with which, under the present memorable circumstances, we ',hall 'devote ourselves to the office with which we are charged ? " We are, Sire, deeply afflitled at the divisions and momentary disturbances which are shaking some of-cur Provinces—disturbances which have been oc casioned ,by the errors of the people, who do not thipk,, and who will merit your pity when they re turn tram their errors. " We have done, Sire, and shall do all that de pends upon ourselves, in order to bring back peace and good order, for that which is of the highest mo ment is, that no hindrance arise in the way of the ben, ticent projeas of the incomparable hero who will imprint immortal name on the grateful brans of our latest, posterity. We are,, Sire, to con cur) • in these projects, and we are to support your Majesty with the integrity, the fidelity, the selt-de . votion, which certainty constitute duties. the most precious to our hearts, since your Majesty has an nounced the glorious relution to.govern only for happiness of Spaniards ; a resolution worthy the Monarch whose fatie is spread over the universe as a model of gentleness and virtue, who constituted the delight of the people he governed, and whore he left in tears, because he went to bear away his vir tues into another land. " Such, Sire, are the feelings which animate us, and which we now come in a body to testify at the feet of your Majesty." To this his Majesty gave the following Answer : " GENTLEMEN, DEPUTIES TO THE JUNTA, " Z snare in your sentiments and in your•hopes. The so clearly announced will of his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH, our illustrious Brother, in favour of the prosperity of Spain, is sufficiently guaranteed by his glory. ". The co-operation of your zeal and your re sources will easily subdue the obstacles which private interest may lay in the way 'of the whole nation ; being founded in errot, they shall be expelled by trat h. • " As to ourselves, we wish not to know those er rors. Beyond the Pyrennees we find none. but Spa nish hearts. In leaving a people who rendered jus tice \ to our Government, we have rikade the severest of all sacrifices; but the love of that people is a prog nostic of that of the Spaniards : shall we do less for the great 'nation whom Providence has entrusted to our care ? Will they be less just towards us ?. We know the full import of Castilian. faith—we 'shall sit our Provinces—we shall bring the heart of a fa ther—we shall meet with none but the hearts of children. . , ". In the mean while the Enemies of the Conti nent seek.to separate the Colonies from the Mother Country : they will impute to us the dissentious which themselves - occasion ; since it is our duty to repress these, we shall on no account spare the ma levolent, who are the accessaries or instruments of the subtle hatred of our enemies. " Continue your labours for the welfare of your Country, and be assured of the blessings of the peo ple, and of our perted satisfaction."—(Moniteur, June 23.) From Bayonne .it is annonneed that the Grand Duke of BERG is arrived in that City. On the 11 tti inst. his Majesty the King of SPAIN' appoinied .the Grand Duke of BERG Lieutenant-Ge neral of Spain. :TUNE 2.s.—The following is a short relation of the 3d - Sitting of the Spanish Junta, holden at Bay onne on the 20th instant : His Excellency M. D'AZANZA caused a sketch Of the Constitutional Statute for Spain to be read by M. ROMANILLOS, Counsellor of Finance ; pre sented by command of his 'Majesty the Emperor and, Ii was resolved that this sketch should be printed; that one copy should be given to each Member of the Junta ; that three days afterwards each Deputy should have the liberty of giving in his sentiments in writing, without preventing oral dis cussions, which may be necessary in order to eluci date the questions to which the sketch may give rise. The Assembly was then adjourned to the. fol lowing day.—(Moniteur, 26th June.) JUNE 26.—The tollowing is an account of the 4th Sitting His Excellency the President invited the Mem bers to express their sentiments on the Constitu tion which hlicl been read to them at the last pSitting.,,. DON I'EDRO DE Israi, Deputy from the Merchants of Burgos o -ead a speech of great ability, in which he gave great praise, assigning the reasons in detail, to the Constitution which the Spanish peo:)le are to receive: he Alen proceeded to some observations on the customs at Burgos, and the exportation 'of wool. Atte!' the dieiisiion of corns mitinte ,iiiai tera, the Meeting adjourned.--:(Moniteur, June 27.) • i'vtADAto, JUNE to.--;The nomination of King . I :9,Ef.ft to fill the Sparaith Throne has been n - ‘l.loiinced to she public', in the following pfelimi , nary article `-` His Imperial and Royal Majesty having corn . plied . with the desire-expresse;l by the Junta of the Government, the Council 'ot . Castile, the City of Madrid, and. various Civil and Military Bodies in the State, that he would chooSe his illustrious brother iTosErrt NAPOLEON, the King of Naples, to be King of Spain; intbrmation has beeri given of this to his • Majesty King JOSEPH, who ha arrived at Bayonne. His Highness the Lieutenani;General'of the King dom, baying given the requisite - orders concerning the journey of our Monarch into' this capital, we have reason to believe that we shall soon enjoy the presence of his Majesty." JUNE 14.—The tidings of the happy renovation which our Monarchy is about to undergo have been forwarded to the American Colonies with so much celerity, and by so many different ways, that we are sure 'of their arriving. , even at the remotest dis tances before the English will . have had time to sow the seeds of discord. Besides, the Spaniards in A`rneriCa are so much on their guard against the Engl:sh, that the repofts they may spread will be credited by no one. All Spaniards of discernment are convinced that the American Colonies, in the change of dynast,' which bits taken place, will find reasonable grounds ' of hdpe , for the future; and those great events will but attDch . them more and more to their Mother Country. As strongly.as religion, language, man ners, and interest attach the Colonies to Spain, so strongly do all these considerations detach them from England.. _ _ At Mexico, Lima, and Buenos Ayres, nothing niore is desired than to be united to Spain ; but at the same time the Colonies require to be governed with more justice and• wisdom than at present. It is required that the career of military glory and mer cantile industry be opened to the Spaniards of Athe rica. The new Dynasty has begun its Government by expressing their good-will towards the Colonies; their Deputies are Members of the General junta ;. they cannot but profit by the changes which have taken place. We may soon hope that the extensive kingdoms of Mexico and Peru, instead of present ing to the English a coast almost neutral, or contri buting very inconsiderably to the War, will hence forth oppose a formidable band of hostile warriors, ready to resist them ton•every part of their shores. BELGRADE, JUNE s.—Within.these few days the greatest aaivity has been evinced in strengthening this fortress, and that' of Semendria : both are fur nished with all kindS of provisions. These measures are taken, in case the Servian army, if beaten by the Turks, should, be forced to retire. From the other side of the - Dardanelles a-great number of troops are arriving, and, after a few days repose, cOntinue.,;beir march to Adrianople, in order to anise with the army of the Grand Vizier, which, last autumn, scarcely amounted to 6,000 men, and now, in consequence of themandatesgiVen to all the Paqhas, consist of 1 00,000 men. - The Pachas of Macedonia ,and Romelia' have also repaired to AdrianOple ; the Agai of Bulgaria are co11(.-.itling their troop: otantscuuck_ and- Nissa._.- firman of the Grand Signor nominates •the Grand Vizier Corn ': rnander in Chief of the Great . Army which encamp :near-AdrianOple, and is destined to' dal against the Russians, in case hostilities should be renewed.— NIUSTAPHA BARACTAR is to lead the army against tie Servians. • . . . . , • :ST..MALO, JUNI 15.-un the 12th inst. five Eng- Hilt Pinnaces, dispatched and covered by three cor vettes, endeavoured to make themselves masters ,of. a French Vessel, which the Corvettes had Comtielled to run ashore 'near the harbour of Roteneut ; but,. the Custom-house officers, the Bens-d'arines, and other military, maintained a continued fire against the enemy, and obliged them to retire. • Accounts from Batavia of the I Gth of February, received by the Ship Tropic, arrived at Boston, state, that after Sir E. PELLew had destroyed . the Dutch Ships in Griesse and SoUsi Bays, he di vided his Squadron, part sairing to the westward and the 'rest to the eastward, supposed for the Moluccas.—Three Danish Indiamen, viz. the Crown Prince, the Maderkddists, and the Two Gosberts, all for Copenhagen, with valuable cargoes, were lying at Batavitt on the tech of February,. but the time of their depafture was uncertain.—One of them (the Moderlandists) bad lost most 'of her Officers 'and crew by an infection caught 'at A trotting-match took place yesterday against time, on the Hampton-cc - art Road ; a mare, the property of Mr. Nooks, of , Holborn, having been backed to perform four miles •in 15 minutes, for fifty. The match. was a very clOse bne, and lost only by a few seconds. Before starting bettings were in favour of the performance: Bow-STREET.—Yesterday Samuel Hyaena, a very genteel dressed Jew, wa, brought before Mr. READ, charged with picking the pocket of • Mr. Ridgway, the bookseller, of Piccadilly, who stated, that yes= terday morning, about It o'clock, as he was passing through Fleet-street, towards the Strand, the pri soner and two other, men grata against him, and he had'no doubt but they did it by design ; he turned round and looked at them—he then w en t on towards the Strand, and they followed him till he got into the Strand, when the prisoner ran against him again ; he instantly turned about, and saw his pocket-book in the prisner's hand; he seized him, and at the same instant one of the•prisoner's gang ran off with the pocket-book, which contained a 21. and two 11. notes, and a bill of exchange. The pri soner was fully committed. We observe with pleasure, that the Microcosm of London, by ACKERMANN, so far maintains its claim to public approbatiOn, as to admit the price being raised, after the i st August next, 50 per cent. to Non-subscribers. We were always of opinion the price was inadequate to its merit. The exertions of the Proprietor have at least kept pace with the public approbation. In some ,instances they have gone beyond it, not only in the Plates, but the in teresting Letter-press of the later Numbers; we need only refer to the Account of the College of Physi cians, and the legal History of the ConStitution which precedes the Account of the Hopse of Com mons and Courts of Law, to support us in this as sertion. • bßsii!viirlokS ON it REMARKS ON VIE PROPOSAL, hi ten TO 3 EAT SEITAIN FOR OPENING NEGOTTATI. , N4 F( I'..sACS IN THE YEAR 1807. BY W. ROP';')E; E,l/41." (Continued from THE. SUN of 23.) WE cone now to the discussions between Lord GRENVILLE LEVEgON add the R uss i an Minister at s;‘; Petersburgh. The first Paper which 'appears is a ,Note from Geneial BUtiBERG, announcing the tati fication of the Arrdistice between FranCe and Russia. Important as the General COnfeises the'knoWledge of it to be to this CountrY, it seems to have been wrung from him by the importunity of LOrd,La- VESON GOWER, who was justly suspicious of the event,, and laudably solicitous for its alithenti communication. Here is the first proof of the ill will , of Russia. This communication is followed by an excellent letter of his Lordship to the General, eXpressing an ardent hope for a General Peace, and declaring the readiness of Great Brit3iii to Coricut• in it. Titi3, Mr. Rosccia, with his usual regard to ustice, passes Over in profound silence. c; I wait with impatience," continues his Lordship, "far the summons of your Excellency to attend his Imperial Ma jest) 3 '` and he concludes with, expressing a wish to knoW the bash do Which the' Proposed No; gotiations were to be founded, and ,reminding the Russian Government of the open and liberal con= duet of this Country, on a similar occasion . ; App, p. The Answer to this friendly NOte is an angry expoSttilation, couched in the severest terms, and containing a most bitter; and, we are truly sorry to add, a most just reproach di the supinentfss, ignorance, 'and selfishness of the last Adinipistrwion . an -Adininistration to *Melt' ft..i&ity will advert with contempt, and ,which will never cease to be the:.aversion of that Europe which it consigned without a struggle, nay, with unfeelieg compla cency, to perpetual desolation and despair. Ta add, after' this, that the Administration from which these evils - and the fatal conseqUence of them (the Peace of Tilsit), as ,the Ernpefor of Rtissia truly declares, prOceeded, is honoured, with the approba tion and applauge of the " impartial" Mr. Ruscug, is superftous; but it may not, perhaps, be alto gether so, to subjoin that this damning document is passed over as ,if it had never existed ; and that, while it stares him full in the face, he has the por , tentous assurance to declare, that, until the sur render of Copenhagen, no ill will had been mani• fested by Russia, qnd that " the British Ministry . had met with nothing but attention and rePpea from her ;" p. 35. 03 tliis our Readers will to their own comments.; we shall content ourselves With remarking, that, of all impudeitee, that of by. pocrisy is the greatest ; and, of all profligacy, that of affeaed delicacy and candour ! Omitting what we have quoted; as well as that part of the correspondence between M. ALokeus and Mr. CANNING, which contains two most strikes ing proofs of the seri ous wishes of this Government for Peace, which it did• not suit Mr.. RosCOE ' s signs to notice, he comes at once to the conference of Lord LEVEsON GOWER with General on TueSdaY the Ist of September, 1807. In the interval which had taken place since the former correspondence between these two public charaaers, great events had happened. The Armi=, stice,which then existed, had terminated. in alreaty, which had thrown the Emperor of Russia inio the arms of BUONAPARTE, and, amidst the anger and disgust whioh the base derelietion of Mr. ROSCOh'S friends had created in • his mind, and the alternate terror and flattery most adroitly dire&ed to his agitated feelings by the tools of the Tyrant, won him over to be the ready instrument of all his ne farious designs against this Country, and the willing betrayer of the independence of Europe. Never," says the Emperor Of RiltiSi3 with some degree of pathos, in the document which Mr. Roscoe has found it expedient to overlook, " never would I have thought of deviating troin that system which I have hitherto pursued, it I had been sup ported by England ;" App. p. 11,—and he pro geeds to give instances of the basest desertion of his cause by those idols of Mr. Roscoe, whose evi dent aim it seemed to be to alienate, the whole of the Continent from Great Britain, and thus compel her to a Peace, no matter of what kind, on which they had madly set their minds. With this expression of concern, expired all that was great and good, all that was just and maghani mous in the Emperor ALEXANDER. The folly of " All the Talents," had now urged him within the sphere of fascination . 'of .that envenomed reptile, BUONAPARTE i and shuddering with terror, yet hopeless of escape, he drew nearer and nearer,, till he fell into, his horrible embrace ! . . The Tyrant proceeded 'with his usual system (for there never was a wretch more devoid of in vention, more dull and uniform in his coyrse of villainy than BUONAPARTE); he first invoked hiS vic tim in a thOusand folds, and then publicly disgraced him. Prussia, which had for the first time aeted nobly, and, shewn, in her misfortunes, a spirit and integrity of which she was believed incapable in her {~